Lies Told by (Most) Essay Companies/Websites

There aren't many "legally recognized" industries plagued by deception and underhanded practices as much as this. The tales of people getting ripped off have spread so far and wide that the mention of "essay writing service" immediately conjures up an alert in almost everyone who hears it. Scam artists have largely contributed to the dubious perception people have of the essay writing business.

It is not only the paying clients who get victimized. The lies and con games of the majority are effectively stinking up the entire industry and adversely upsetting the operations of the genuine few.

I know this topic is extremely broad, and perhaps every fitting thread on this forum somehow addresses it.

It is imperative, however, that every opportunity to cleanse the market be taken and exhausted.

These are some of the most common lies peddled by scamming websites. This list does not come close to being exhaustive, and barely scratches the surface of the matter it aspires to address. It only mentions a few express lies and misrepresentations. It leaves out the devious tactics and illegal machinations not visible to the targeted customers. Many forum members have already contributed to those and will continue to. Some topics will never run out of new content.

The lies mentioned here are also not the darkest known to industry veterans, but rather those that students come across and need to watch out for:

1. All our writers are ENL writers. Very few essay companies employ only ENL writers. Very few. Most of the others say this because they know the effect it has on potential customers. Some sites say this without even fully understanding what it means.

2. Reviews and testimonials. Most (nearly all) reviews and testimonials from supposed customers are fake. Genuine students who use essay writing services wouldn't care enough to go through the hustle of finding a different forum/blog/site to post how "satisfied" they are with a product. They know they don't need to. All they have to do is use the same service next time, or at most tell a friend. A student has zero incentive singing praises of an essay company online. Many of them want to keep it a secret that they paid to get a paper completed.

3. Years of experience. Most websites are not truthful about how long they've been operational. Those of us who've been in this business long enough know that there are only a handful of essay writing companies that are more than 15 years old, with 3 or 4 having already hit the 20-year mark. Nearly all the rest are imitators, chancers, experimenters, fraudsters, and/or latecomers.

4. 100% Money back guarantee. There's no such thing, at least not in the sense it is normally intended to imply. I have covered this more exhaustively in a different thread.

5. FREE stuff. This is not a lie as much as it is a lame gimmick. Dozens of sites keep mentioning that they offer free bibliography page, free title page, free formatting, free online support etc. That's almost like Apple advertising that a new iPhone comes with a free screen.

6. Stats and Metrics. I'm yet to come across a site saying they deliver less than 90% of their orders on time, or that their average quality score is under 7/10. If you can't verify them, don't believe them.

7. Samples. This is especially true for sites that allow students to pick writers before placing orders. The writer samples are mostly not prepared by the writers attached to them. From a different perspective, consider the implications of a company giving out full rights to a paper it has prepared for a client only to later provide the same paper in future as a sample to a different student.

8. FREE plagiarism checker. I debated including this one then I figured it's better to err on the side of caution. This is a polarizing issue that has been discussed enough in several threads already. My opinion is that it belongs in this list. Hopefully, having it here will trigger some little restraint or initiate a thorough search for a more definite conclusion by a needy student.

They sure do. The single biggest waste of my time is having to respond to the concerns of skittish new clients worried about getting ripped off, especially after they've already been ripped off by one or more scamming competitors whose websites are expressly designed to convince prospective customers that they're legit and whose ridiculously low prices, with which I can't possibly compete, are merely part of that whole scam. I can't think of any other industry where I'd have to reassure new customers, almost daily, that I'm a legit provider and will deliver exactly what they order, especially after having providing the highest-quality services under the same ID for almost 20 years. I understand their concerns completely and I try to be as patient as possible with them, but it's a tremendous time-waster to have to deal with constantly. It also skews prospective customers' expectations about appropriate prices for the high-quality work they're seeking.

The more empty promises a company makes on their websites, the more a student should not hire them. The copy on a majority of non-vetted academic writing sites are just empty blurbs, unsupported by verifiable facts. The mere number of guarantees that a company makes should make the student wonder how the company can afford to stay in business that way. Unfortunately, the students don't always think about those things, which is why they tend to believe the lies the company churns out. Students are still young enough to be gullible and that is what most essay companies rely upon when having their website advertising created.

Students run on a budget so the companies tend to lie in order to reach their target market. If that means telling lies to bring in the business, then they won't think twice about doing it. For them, it is all about saying the right words to make the student part with their money at their site. They will lie and cheat to steal the client's money. That is the ultimate goal for them every single time.

I agree that the reason why essay companies or sites use these techniques to lure customers into availing their service is because of the innate gullibility of these students. I don't blame them, though. Especially if you have legitimate reasons to avail of the services. In the end, it is still part of the business. After all, the essay writing community is still business-driven and would always feed as much off from these situations as they possibly can. It's up to the companies themselves to decide on whether or not these lies would be incorporated into their work. Because there's no other way for students to know which sites are reliable and which are just not worth their time, it's just a given to have these websites up and running as they are now.

The most common lie told is "We can write any paper that you need." That is hyperbole. They have their client assistants say the same thing, backed up by generic YouTube testimonies (yep, those have evolved too in the digital media age), enumerating the praises of the writing company. Why YouTube hasn't cracked down on those companies yet when their parent company, Google, has already done so is beyond me. Of course students, raised in the era of "if it's on the internet it must be true", take the testimonies as sacred truth. They learn that it's a con the hard way. Being on YT is not the same as word of mouth promotion. Unfortunately, the current crop of students don't really understand that there is a difference so they believe the lies and sign up for the service, without knowing what they are actually in store for in the end.